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Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.

The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

the cheapest and most abundant and utile political resource for the american ruling class is muslim life. this has been true my entire life. you can never go wrong slaughtering muslims

Judith Butler Apology Form: From: Date: Reason for behaviour: [ ] The media convinced me that feminism was solved in the 1980s [ ] I never actually read their work [ ] I miss not thinking about gender [ ] I didn’t realize how much of society is built on gender [ ] I was jealous of their nonbinary swag [ ] Mercury was in retrograde [ ] I will hereby respect JUDITH BUTLER and I will not talk down on the best feminist thinker of our lifetimes

SEC Ends Case Against Crypto Billionaire Justin Sun The US Securities and Exchange Commission will end its lawsuit against crypto billionaire Justin Sun.

@bft.wtf @cascoinfoundation.org the unfortunate conclusion of what we all knew would happen

thank you for the grim but excellent reporting 🫡🫡

Protos continues to be a must-read

burry isn't right 100% of the time, not even close to it. But this is a fundamental misunderstanding of why depreciation matters and also what burry's thesis is here

I think reading books actually causes severe damage to the language center of the brain. Reading books is how you get people saying shit like "amidst," which is a word that no one knows how to use anymore. I use it constantly and the youth knock me down to kick me daily while shouting "worldstar!"

“Guy Debord Vindicated Again” is not a sentence you ever want to be typing and yet I feel like I’m doing it maybe two dozen times a week at this point

said this earlier, I've not looked forward to an S-1 filing this much since, well, WeWork...

I think that says it all

i love the handful of people responding to this to say that Dunks is bad coffee

i don't think they understand that New Englanders' affection for Dunks is only incidentally related to the quality of their products

what, you don’t have ultimate faith in the regulatory chops of the Wyoming Division of Banking???

i am eagerly awaiting their S-1

shades of WeWork in that (lmao)

literally, this

This gives away the whole game, as people have been warning for years and years. This is identity erasure of a whole class. the precedents for having documents revoked by group…are not good.

but, you see, he did just say in his deposition re: his sour-grapes OpenAI lawsuit that nobody has ever committed suicide because of Grok!

Oh hey, this sounds familiar encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...

the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.

To any Democrat who ever said about any issue, "Maybe if we agree with Republicans just this far, they'll stop there," remember that you were wrong, it was obvious at the time, and you really should never believe that again about any issue, ever.

i was once too broke to move from one apartment in a building down the hall to another post-breakup. moving isn’t cheap or particularly fun &, by and large, trans people aren’t doing great economically. 401,000 trans people fleeing their governments should be considered a fucking national emergency.

It would be really funny if one of the presidential debates was actually a surprise eighth grade civics test

The idea that twitter/X is the internet commons is the stupidest idea that will not die. It is not even that important a social media site, anymore, just quit it

when I broke story abt Hanania being Nazi, almost none of folks he was tied to - Substack, NYT, WaPo, Atlantic, Stanford, UT, U of Austin, WSJ, Andreesen, Thiel, Ramaswamy, Sacks, Vance, Federalist Society - would comment

my book describes how this was indicator of this fascist political moment

wild choice of example

Largely fears over cancel culture among elites are likely motivated by the fact that they truly believe that their status and wealth should shield them from certain moral or ethical standards. Pretending it is anything else is delusional at this point.

"internally displaced refugees" is a perfectly valid way to describe about 2/3rds of my trans friends but it makes squishy Dems who aren't sure if trans rights poll well uncomfortable, so I never hear it said about us

screenshot from the linked-to timeline that reads: February 20, 2016: Insofar as I can tell, the first ever claim that "social contagion" is turning kids transgender. It occurs as a comment on the 4thwavenow.com "About" page, posted on February 20, 2016 at 5:27pm, under the handle "skepticaltherapist." Shortly thereafter, 4thwavenow.com turned this comment into its own post, called... February 29, 2016: 4thwavenow.com publishes "Tumblr snags another girl, but her therapist-mom knows a thing or two about social contagion." As noted in the previous entry, this is skepticaltherapist's earlier comment, posted along with a brief intro from the folks at 4thwavenow. There are several potentially noteworthy things about it, and the comments that follow it: o It begins by referencing a Star Trek TNG episode in which the crew becomes addicted to an alien video game, then makes the following analogy: "The alien mind control device made its way into my home about two years ago when my then eleven-year-old daughter begged me for a Tumblr account since her friends all had one." o In the piece, skepticaltherapist describes herself as a psychotherapist, later adding, "As a therapist, I mostly work with adults."

precisely 10 years ago today, the concept of "transgender social contagion" was first invented on the now infamous anti-trans parent website 4thWaveNow. a full timeline of how the concept spread (not unlike a "social contagion") can be found here: juliaserano.blogspot.com/2019/02/orig...

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

When i say the american right is obsessed with us, this is kind of what i mean

wrote to a journalist about UMA token shenanigans re: Polymarket. seems dire that more and more platforms are letting the gamblers and liars in

read: substack